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DU's Orientation

I haven’t started class yet, but we had orientation this week for my program. It went pretty well. 3 days for 4 hours each (we got to drink 2 out of 3 days). I met the dean, students, professors, and staff. We received books for the 1st quarter, 1 Financial Acctg book and 2 small Daniels Compass books. We also got a tshirt, waterbottle, and will be getting a backpack or messenger bag (I chose messenger bag). Most of it was telling us about the university, the college, the libraries, and the extracurriculars, but we also had lectures and a laptop setup session. If anyone knows about Carl Jung’s model of personality or Insights Discovery or Color Energies, I learned that I am a green, big surprise right? If anybody wants me to elaborate just ask me!

The majority of the class is male, younger, and it turns out most are married. I actually feel like I am on the older side, a lot of kids out of undergrad college about 2 or 3 years, whereas I graduate 6 yrs ago. I also feel old when everything is online. They use this online tool called Blackboard so all syllabus, articles, chapters, etc, need to get pulled off that site. The prof also sends messages through that. So what do I do now, read everything off a computer screen? How do you take notes or highlight things? Do I download it onto my computer and use up my disk space? OR spend tons of money on paper and ink and print it all? Not sure yet, but I actually do need to get to reading my assignments now. I feel like I’m behind already and classes haven’t even started yet. At least, it sounds like we get take home tests!

In other news, I saw Down the Line at Copper Mtn on Sunday and went for my 1st CO hike in Frisco. I also bought my Colorado Ski Pass! There goes another $439.00, I can’t stop spending money!




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